Five portraits
Subtitle: modernity and the imagination in twentieth-century German writing
By: Michael André Bernstein.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Celan, Paul -- Criticism and interpretation.; German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: "In Five Portraits, one of the most acute critical thinkers of our time presents essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred years. The result is a remarkable examination of a moment of cultural crisis - a time when these writers, caught between the dream of creating an abiding masterpiece and the reality of a brutal culture fascinated by apocalyptic catastrophe, deliberately put themselves and their work at the center of the storm."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-141) and index.